E.Herodotus was a Greek accredited as the first historian to collect and arrange his material in a historiographic narrative. The Histories Inquiry was his first and only work that was recorded.
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The ancient Greek thinker and writer Herodotus is considered to be the father (or, founder) of history because of the nature of what he wrote. His long and serious serit of books known as the "Histories" was written in such a way (comprehensively, systematically, with various perspectives explicitly identified and given voice) as to stand apart from all previous works and to establish a pattern for all further "historical" works to come.
Because he was the first historian who wrote records of happenings such as in the Persian Wars and the Battle of Thermopylae (300)
Herodotus
Herodotus is considered to be the father of history. Herodotus was the first to record a historical event and that was the Persian War.
Homer is not called the Father of History. Herodotus is called the Father of History (at least in the western world) because his history is the first to look for logical casues for the events he depicts.
Herodotus
He was the father of history, and he published a book called "The Histories".